Title: American Colossus
Author: H. W. Brands
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780385533584
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages: 512
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: History, Business, United States History, Economics, 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Economic Systems, 19th Century American History - Economic Aspects, Capitalism
Categories: History, Business, United States History, Economics, 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Economic Systems, 19th Century American History - Economic Aspects, Capitalism
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.
American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the first Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chicago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimaginable wealth, but not without cost to its traditional democratic values.
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